So well put as usual! It can be complicated to know and come to terms with what we feel/know we are, not necessarily what other people want us to be.
Jennifer
Comment is about Identity (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
There are competitions for the older poet, since you ask, MC. The King Lear prizes, for instance, are just about to announce this year's winners, but hopefully they will be running again next year. https://www.kinglearprizes.org.uk/
Comment is about Deadline nears for Foyle Young Poets of the Year award (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Fine poem, Chris. Good point about the stature (not that there's anything wrong with being five-seven!)
Comment is about Icon (blog)
Original item by Chris Hubbard
It sounds scarier than the bodysnatchers, John.
Comment is about VITVAL (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
This is beautiful, Julie.
Comment is about Our Garden Tonight (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
We have just moved house and I concur with this entirely. The only upside is that when the dishwasher needs emptying, or the table clearing I have no idea where anything goes. So I leave it to Our Gert.
Comment is about UNPACKING (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Was it GBS who observed that youth is wasted on the young?
The ring is rung - the fling is flung
When age-wise you're no longer young;
It can happen before you know it
So how about "The Foyle Old Fogey Poet"? ?
Comment is about Deadline nears for Foyle Young Poets of the Year award (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Define the difference between -
absent minded
and
when the mind goes absent. ?
Comment is about UNPACKING (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Wed 23rd Jun 2021 15:11
Thanks for the kind likes and comments Holden, Nigel Ghazala and Greg
Comment is about Our Garden Tonight (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for the likes Holden and Leon, also for the kind comment.
Comment is about Distant Rain (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Thanks for the likes Stephen G and Holden
Comment is about Freedom Day (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
The sparrows chatter like mad in our bamboo at dusk. And I love acers! Thanks for this, Julie.
Comment is about Our Garden Tonight (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
"Put aside your wasted semaphore crosses". Martin, that line alone encapsulates so much of today's false affections. Has love become a perfunctory touch as you say in the first three lines? A poem which speaks of a world where, even to show true affection, has escaped us. A peck on the check and the words "I love you" have become devalued currency. Internet affection???
Thank you for this. A poem which has needed to be written for some time.
Keith
Comment is about The tenderness of you (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
I liked the background repetition of the title. Innovative. Leaves a good impact on the listener to believe there's art in the city. May be we see it too.
Great imagery used?
Comment is about There Is Art In This City (blog)
Original item by Dean Fraser
Thanks to Nigel Stephen Kimberly and Holden for the likes
and thanks to Hazel for commenting .
My feeling behind this is that we all need to be embraced and to feel we are being embraced at times. Even more so over the last twelve months and more. We have taken the feeling of touch for granted in the past
Thanks again
Martin
Comment is about The tenderness of you (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Wed 23rd Jun 2021 01:49
Thank you so much Brenda, I really appreciate it ?.
Comment is about Narcissus (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Colours are seen
when looking at
words of poetry.
Comment is about Our Garden Tonight (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Wed 23rd Jun 2021 00:22
Good stuff, Ralph. Love the line “when the tide retreats to reveal the shells of us...” ?
Comment is about The Worst Words (blog)
Original item by Ralph Dartford
Too busy writing, missed the photo opportunity? the colours where stunning tonight. I will try to catch them before the light fades tomorrow.
Comment is about Our Garden Tonight (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
Wow, what an understanding Mum you had! Enid Blyton, Billy Bunter, Felix, Beano with Desperate Dan, Black Beauty, and the Radiant Way for learning to read. Those were the days!
Jennifer
Comment is about THAT'S WHAT MUMS ARE FOR (blog)
Original item by ray pool
I really enjoyed the rhythm of this piece and the opportunity occasionally for a very gentle rhyme. Thank you
Comment is about Narcissus (blog)
Original item by Holden Moncrieff
Thank you Sandra and Stephen
Comment is about The Sound of Blossom Falling (blog)
Original item by vincent berquez
Interest begets interest....whatever plan you invest in.
Some speculate to accumulate
Others procreate to accumulate! ?
Comment is about Earned Interest (blog)
Original item by d.knape
<Deleted User> (29145)
Tue 22nd Jun 2021 12:57
oh that wonderful scented mixture of rain and wild greenery!
magic!
nice piece julie
LS
Comment is about Distant Rain (blog)
Original item by julie callaghan
<Deleted User> (29145)
Tue 22nd Jun 2021 12:52
I will put this nugget in my thought bank where it will go on gaining interest for sure
cheers d.K.
LS
Comment is about Earned Interest (blog)
Original item by d.knape
I love a bit of verbals Greg! We could go on - The destruction of the Arch at Euston still hangs heavy in one's mind but luckily justice has been served with Betjeman's presence. Your poem is so true to your style and gives us pause for thought as always - no doubt in 100 years time the HS2 will have joined the annals of railway heritage too.
Ray
Comment is about Small earthquake in Chesham and Amersham (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Sounds lovely, book me in for next week
Comment is about Little Crowtown (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
I only mentioned Betjeman as a geographical locator, Ray. You and I share a fascination with him. Knowing nothing about C & A, as it were, my interest was aroused when I realised their proximity to Metroland. I thought, there's a poem here. Not much a poem, I admit, but maybe I will go back to it some day. I'm going on holiday soon, and I plan to take his Collected away with me for a fresh look. Betjeman an anachronism? Maybe. But if it wasn't for him and other campaigners, we wouldn't still have the wonderful St Pancras station. There's politics in everything, I believe.
Comment is about Small earthquake in Chesham and Amersham (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
Thank you D.Knape. Returned the favour. I hadn’t noticed until you pointed it out?
Comment is about NEW HOME (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Thank you Stephen. I appreciate that. I am happy that I posted it. Wishing you a wonderful week. ?
Comment is about That night (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
The Lost Domain
Banished ghost lines
some do return
they become visible
no longer unaccountable
impulsive naked eye.
Comment is about June 2021 Collage Poem: The Other Me (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Tue 22nd Jun 2021 00:32
Thank you Julie Callaghan. (I went ahead and capitalized your name, since you apparently could not.)
by the way to post a post,
first you have to dig a hole
only don't fall in the hole
that's a hole different story!
?
Comment is about NEW HOME (blog)
Original item by d.knape
sandra mcinnes
Mon 21st Jun 2021 23:16
Wonderful book of poems. Love the way the book is divided into different sections and the way Vincent uses words to describe many pertinent themes in life in his own authentic way - with a thread of humour sewn though many of them. Very readable and contemporary.
Comment is about The Sound of Blossom Falling (blog)
Original item by vincent berquez
Interesting Greg mentioning Betjeman and politics in the same poem, a juxtaposition which I feel may have left him bereft . The poem is a neat awakening from one period (when of course much land was available to little opposition apart from the egotistical landowners insisting on their own stations) to one where lots of political balls may be in the air at any one time. Betjeman himself was an anachronism of sorts in the class sense. (IMO)
Ray
Comment is about Small earthquake in Chesham and Amersham (blog)
Original item by Greg Freeman
One of my favourite movies. I hope you like it too.?
Comment is about Back to the Future (blog)
Original item by Stuart Vanner
A thoughtful, deeply-felt poem. Thanks.
Comment is about Visiting the Grave (blog)
Original item by J.D. Bardo
Rasa
This is a sad poem, which must have been very hard to write. Thank you for posting it. I think it was worth it.
Comment is about That night (blog)
Original item by Rasa Kabaila
thanks for the kind comments Stephen and Greg. Glad you liked it. Dark indeed - but hopefully with a little light in there somewhere.
Thanks to everyone for the 'likes' I appreciate it
Ian
Comment is about # False Prophet (blog)
Original item by Ian Whiteley
Hope you will be very happy in your new home.
Comment is about NEW HOME (blog)
Original item by d.knape
Waving the flag for research down under?
Perhaps we men should concentrate on the odd fact that the
location in question is primarily a waste disposal site and just be
grateful when that doesn't give us cause for concern - not least
as the years accumulate. Perhaps the moral for men should be:
Let's not get too cocky about the dicky just in case the cocky turns
dicky!! ?
Comment is about RESEARCH (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Stephen Gospage
Wed 23rd Jun 2021 18:02
Great rhyming and wordplay, M.C. Put me right off my cheeseburger.
Comment is about GONE TO POT (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry